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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸1/22/2013 3:22:02 pm PST

re: #179 freetoken

No, probably not.

First, we have to deal with the lumper/splitter issue in biology. It is no longer clear to me that the idea of “Homo sapiens ssp. sapiens” makes sense, or to split up any of the post-H. heidelbergensis species the way we do.

40,000 years ago we know the following exist from their remnants:
(1) anatomically modern humans in West, North, and East Africa, as well as Eurasia and parts of Oceania.
(2) culturally modern humans, apparently from their tools.
(3) “Neanderthals” remaining in a few spots.
(4) “Denisovans” in south Siberia, a close relative to the Neanderthals.
(5) H. florensiensis, some sort of small statured hominin on at least one island in Oceania.

As is the case with all of archeology and paleontology, our discoveries can never be thought of as comprehensive of what existed at the time.

what species did homo sapiens sapiens evolve from? i thought the accepted estimate for the first homo sapiens sapiens like humans was at about 200,000 bc… and the ancestors must have been around at that time

(btw, i doan cotten to them there splitters)